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" I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad. "
The miscellaneous prose works of sir Walter Scott - Page 414
by sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 29

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1823 - 636 pages
...feeling was first and most apparent. A year only after the restoration, Evelyn writes in his Diary, ' I saw Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, played, but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his majesty's being so long abroad.' A few years afterwards...
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Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 472 pages
...of the courtcircle. In 1661 he saw "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, played ; but now, the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his majesty has been so long abroad." Pepys, his contemporary, was a play-haunter ; and how he relished " The Midsummer Night's Dream," with...
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Amenities of literature, sketches and characters of English literature, Volume 3

Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 436 pages
...of the courtcircle. In 1661 he saw " Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, played; but now, the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his majesty has been so long abroad." Pepys, his contemporary, was a play-haunter; and how he relished " The Midsummer Night's Dream," with...
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Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1842 - 360 pages
...tasteof the court-circle. In 1661 he saw "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, played; but now, the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his majesty has been so long abroad." Pepys, his contemporary, was a play-haunter; and how he relished "The Midsummer Night's Dream," with...
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Chronicles of Fashion: From the Time of Elizabeth to the Early ..., Volume 1

Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 484 pages
...often acted, and when they were, they were not considered attractive. Evelyn says (26th Nov., 1662), "I saw Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, played ; but now...refined age, since his Majesty has been so long abroad ;" and Pepys has, amongst others, the following memorandums. " 1662 : March 1. To the Opera, and there...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1904 - 668 pages
...John Evelyn, generally accepted as a more refined and cultured man than Pepys, who in 1661 writes : ' I saw " Hamlet, Prince of Denmark," played, but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined ace, since his Majesty's being во long abroad !' and this is the only...
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Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F. R. S.: To which is ..., Volume 1

John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1850 - 512 pages
...with thin lead.* 24th. This night his Majesty fell into discourse with me concerning bees, &c. 26th. I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played ; but now the...plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesty's being so long abroad. 28th. I dined at Chiffinch's house-warming, in St. James's Park; he...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 76

England - 1854 - 760 pages
...against these fascinating vanities. We read with a little amusement the graver historian's record — " I saw Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, played ; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his Majesty's being so much abroad ; " which Pepys confirms...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 33

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...against these fascinating vanities. We read with a little amusement the graver historian's record — '' I saw Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, played ; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his Majesty's being so much abroad;" which Pepys confirms...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 33

American literature - 1854 - 598 pages
...against these fascinating vanities. We read with a little amusement the graver historian's record — '' I saw Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, played ; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his Majesty's being so much abroad;" which Pepys confirms...
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